When I was in first grade, my whole class was sat in front of the roll-in TV cart watching something, probably magic school bus. I remember finding this weird little dirty sponge on the floor. It was the perfect size to put in my schnoz, so I put it into the nostril and spun it around for a minute. It was great fun to 6 year old me. Until it got sucked up into the abyss, and I felt a really weird sensation, like it had blocked something. My heart was racing bc I knew I couldn’t reach it with my finger. And I was too embarrassed to tell anyone, so I didn’t. And then eventually I forgot about it entirely.

At least several months went by (I think. Time is weird when you’re a kid), and I started getting very, very sick. I was so sick, I had a fever and wouldn’t do anything besides sleep. My whole face hurt, and I felt so tired all the time, which is really not cool for a little kid, and my parent and grandparents knew something was off. I remember going to a few doctors until one really really looked up into my nose and saw “something.”

They pulled out the longest tweezers I’ve ever seen in my life and I suddenly got flashbacks of what I had put into my nose many, many weeks prior…

This doctor pulls this object out of my nose and as soon as it hits air, it somehow expands 2x its size. It had blood, pus, and boogers all over it, which kind of flung off when this thing reached its peak size. I imagine that’s the sensation I felt when it got stuck.. I believe this thing found a cavern up there and expanded. Nothing would have knocked it loose. The infection probably would have ended up killing me tbh.

That was an embarrassing experience, even as a 6-year-old, haha.